Why does this project go down EVERY second or third weekend? Rather flakey and very unprofessional in my opinion.

I think this post was a bit rude frankly.
This project is being run a donation basis with donated equipment and a small staff. I think they are doing a stellar job with what they have to work with. And I thank them for their devotion as well.
This is not a business, this is an academic research project.

Well, a sloppy (i.e., UNbusinesslike) attitude can be a problem - just ask the boys at UEA CRU.

But it's not a business.

It's a research project.

Besides, yet again, we're measuring by the wrong criteria.

Web sites that make money have to be up, because they are there for people to view.

What BOINC does (in theory) does not involve people. It involves machines in the field getting and returning work.

I don't see the slightest reason to get upset when one machine cannot instantly communicate with another. No reason at all.

... and I think the best solution is to simply take away the BOINC client GUI entirely -- or simplify it to the point that we can't see work in progress, only completed work after it is reported.

It'd sure stop all of this immature "SETI@Home is dying" whining that seems so rampant.

I've been able to upload but not download as yet. Just 12 hours left on main machine at the minute. Maybe there are so many posts to the forums it's preventing the science traffic from getting through :D!

Here, here. I've been crunching number for SETI@Home for a long time and it always amazes me that a project that is being run on a shoestring by some very dedicated people has as good an uptime as it does.

The people working SET@Home deserve our kudos and NOT a bunch of whining.

Sorry guys i gota whinge again . I can download seti units however it seems to be sending the units twice as ever second unit downloaded fails i have heaps of units so i am getting them ok but it's weird how every second unit says fail not a big problem at this end as i am getting units but i thought you might need to know about this weird thing that is happening incase it causes you guys problems at your end . It just says download fail check out my results page to see them not the 1's i have canceld (cuda couldn't handel them and i haven't got much paitents to wait till it finishes the unit to use my computer so dump them only about 10% i'm guessing tend to stop my machine )

Sadly, LHC@Home appears to have abandoned BOINC. I guess the physicists are too busy tweeting now.

LHC was used to adjust the beam magnets before startup. They have started up. Project did its thing and now it is done. Unless they run into a problem with the beam, there aren't likely to ever be any more work units for BOINC.

Looks like some of the folksw around here are in serious need of some maturity...and patience.

If you're in this for ego-stroking, then your in it for the wrong reason.

Science isn't about ego, it about learning and discovering. It's fraught with problems and obstacles and failure is more common that success.

I've never see so many whiney little children. Relax and take a breather. If you are unhappy with these occassional outages, then set your program up so that you have a weeks worth of data sets always in reserve.

I wouldn't normally recommend that as it leaves the project with the potential to lose more data sets as individual computers encounter failures and interruptions, but if you feel you need to, do so.

Otherwise, QUIT WHINING! Act like an adult for a change. Judging from some of the posts here, it'll be the first time in your lives you ever have.

The guys are working as hard as they can to make this whole thing run smoothly. If they need a break every now and then, so be it.

Personally, I hope everyone enjoys a nice holiday...even those of you who don't reside in the good ol' USA.

WillMan's future lies in the stars, not on Earth. It is each successive generation's responsibility to humanity to expand the knowledge and understanding of our Universe so that we may one day venture forth to meet our neighbors.

Hey, everybody that's having problems downloading: try shutting down (gracefully, of course...) your BOINC client, and re-starting it. This worked for me on two machines... (the third didn't need it...)

As far as LHC goes, I understand that once the beam is back online, they're going to be using BOINC to analyze (at least some of...) the resulting data.. Hello, from Albany, California!

Geez some of you guys need to relax. So the project has server issues, Big deal. Unless you guys are trading credits for cash who cares if seti has glitches. Im glad the guys at seti finally said screw it and took a break. [/quote]

Exactly. If someone needs something to do while the servers are down, I'd recommend reading some of the documentation here, especially this one.

From BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage:

Reduce the barriers of entry to public-resource computing. BOINC allows a research scientist with moderate computer skills to create and operate a large public-resource computing project with about a week of initial work and an hour per week of maintenance. The server for a BOINCbased project can consist of a single machine configured with common open-source software (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Python).

A better understanding of how things are supposed to work is very helpful when things are not working perfectly.